Looking up at the golden autumn sun overhead, it was close to noon at this time, and the slave owners in the slave market began to ask the servants to carry the gruel made of buckets of sweet potatoes up to the high platform, and the slaves standing on the high platform began to enjoy a simple lunch one after another, they huddled together one by one, sat down on the high platform with limited space, and slowly drank the sweet potato porridge in the bowl with the clay bowl in their hands.A bowl of potato porridge was the slaves' daily lunch at noon, and only a few sturdy male slaves were able to enjoy the treatment of meat porridge and black bread in order to maintain the angular muscles on their bodies, but the slave owner raised the price too high, and the price was written on the bronzed pectoralis major muscles of the male slaves, and no one cared about it all morning.The slaves, who had been standing on the platform all morning, were already tired, and they were only allowed to sit down and rest for a while at noon meal.Although it is autumn, the midday temperature still makes people sweat profusely when standing under the sun.A group of slave women gathered at a wooden barrel in the corner of the high platform to drink, and they took turns holding a wooden spoon, and when they had drunk their fill, they would pour the rest of the water from the wooden spoon over their heads, and they were wrapped in linen cloth to look more like a gray bath towel.The water-soaked skirts were almost translucent, and there were always greedy eyes in the audience that glanced at the women, and the young slave girls curled up with shame, some squatting, some half-lying on the high platform, waiting for a fate to be sold.At this time, the slave owners also went to the restaurant outside the slave market to have lunch, and temporarily let the attendants guard the high platform.According to my good friend Bobby in El City, some of the slave owners' attendants would become distorted and obscure when they had been dealing with slaves for a long time, and they would often make fun of the slaves, and sometimes the guards would even deliberately neglect their duties, luring the slaves to escape, and then go out in pursuit with weapons and dogs, and once the escaped slaves were caught, they would be hung on a tree and beaten badly, and then hung on the tree to death.After tossing all morning, but not even buying a slave, I saw that Arya looked a little tired, so I said to Lady Arya, "The slave owners here are gone, let's go have lunch!"
”"Oh, I'm hungry, I know there's a good restaurant around here, why don't we go somewhere to eat."
Lady Arya rested her right hand on her slender waist, wiping the fine sweat on her forehead with a silk handkerchief, and Betty, the personal maid, propped up a parasol behind her, and held up the heavy skirt of Lady Arya with one hand so that she could walk more lightly, and the two slave girls who had just been bought were honestly following Betty."
Okay!"
I happily agreed.I was still very curious about how the nobles in the imperial capital enjoyed lunch outside, because Noah told me that the aristocratic restaurants I went to before were at best only patronized by small nobles, and the wealthy nobles in the imperial capital were very particular about eating.The magic caravan carried us to the door of a luxury restaurant outside the opera house in the Fifth Block, the roof of the restaurant was as tall as a rainbow with a string of glittering imperial letters written on it, and the decorative walls outside the restaurant were plated with a layer of matte silver, and several luxury magic caravans were parked in front of this restaurant, and several aristocratic counts in dresses walked out of the restaurant with their stomachs shy, and boarded the magic caravan at the door.Before entering the restaurant, Madame Arya specially asked me to wear the Order of the Noble Earl on my chest to avoid unnecessary trouble, and the so-called modesty and courtesy of those nobles are also targeted.This kind of high-end restaurant has certain requirements for the attire of the guests, I changed into the goose-yellow Misoli magic robe on the magic caravan, and Lady Arya also touched up some light makeup, her long dress looked a little cumbersome, but the craftsmanship was very exquisite, because it was lunch, Lady Arya asked Betty to untie the back of the restraint belt a little.I jumped out of the carriage and stood beside the carriage to help Mrs.
Arya down, she held my shoulder with one hand and my hand with the other, and jumped down lightly, her long skirt like an open umbrella, suddenly blooming in the air, and then quickly changing back to its original flowery appearance.At the entrance of the restaurant, two well-dressed waiters helped us push the door open, and a waiter ushered us in and led us to the room on the second floor, which is more like a luxurious living room, in addition to the dining table, next to a set of soft sofas for people to rest, a row of bookshelves on the wall, and purple velvet curtains in front of the floor-to-ceiling windows, through which you can see the street outside.The two slave girls that Arya had just bought did not follow us into the private room, but were placed in the waiter's lounge area on the first floor.There was a thick corn-colored blanket on the floor of the private room, Betty knelt on the carpet and untied the shoelaces of the crystal slippers for Mrs.
Alia, Mrs.
Alia dragged the heavy long skirt and let her body sink into the sofa, Betty hurriedly ran over and squatted on the carpet to rub her feet, her heels were slender, but the soles of her feet looked a little fleshy, and her round toes were painted with red nail polish, which was dazzling under the reflection of her fair skin.When I ordered, Mrs.
Arya ordered a seafood soup, a Bednar burrito, and a vegetable salad, while I chose a pan-fried dragon neck and imperial sausages with bread.In fact, the taste of the dishes here is very average, basically just the original taste of the ingredients, but the advantage is that all the ingredients are very fresh, and each dish uses the best tender meat on the monster, although it does not feel amazing after eating a meal, but it is also decent.The best thing here is that the dining environment is comfortable, and after the meal, take a break from the soft sofa, which is even more tired.The maid in the restaurant quietly withdrew from the room after placing fruit and dessert on the coffee table in front of the sofa.Arya sat on the beige sofa in front of the floor-to-ceiling window, looking out of the glass window at Mount Majaro, which surrounded the imperial capital in the distance.A wisp of autumn wind blew into the room through the white curtains, blowing open the bangs on her head, revealing a full and bright forehead.When she saw me coming over with a cup of vanilla milk tea, a charming smile appeared on the corner of her mouth.I sat down next to her, trying to lay my head down comfortably with my head on her long round legs.She was afraid that the court dress would be wrinkled by me and that she would not be able to wear it out to meet people, so she hurriedly smiled and refused.I put my arms around her slender waist, and she couldn't dodge it, so she relented, and asked her maid Betty to come and help her take off her long dress, hang it on a hanger in the corner of the wall, and wear a close-fitting pure white spider silk petticoat, so that I could rest on her fleshy legs.On such a sunny autumn afternoon, take a break in the private room of a luxury restaurant.
Under the ambiguous atmosphere, hormones burned in the body, Arya reached out and picked a green agate from the crystal clear grape bunch in the fruit bowl, and stuffed it into my mouth, she leaned down, her delicate face was infinitely enlarged in front of my eyes, Yin Hong's lips.
The flap was then imprinted on my lips.In a trance, she couldn't tell whether the green agate grapes were sweet or her lips were sweet.Unfortunately, this is a private room in a high-end restaurant, and there is a huge floor-to-ceiling window in front of us, and we can see the streetscape of the fifth block from the upstairs, and in the eyes of passers-by on the street, this high-end restaurant is also a streetscape from the glass window.The best we can do is kiss softly behind a half-hidden white curtain.When she came out of the restaurant, Lady Arya was completely restored, and the charm that came out of her bones was almost dripping.The sky in this season is exceptionally clean, and there will always be migratory birds flying south above the sky, because of the existence of the floating imperial city, these migratory birds will generally fly very high, if they accidentally crash into the forbidden space of the imperial capital, they will flutter their wings and fall from the sky, becoming a delicacy on the table of a resident of the imperial capital.The moment Lady Arya and I returned to the gate of the slave market and stepped out of the magic caravan, Lady Arya blushed slightly, and the inadvertent appearance was always like what we had done in the magic caravan a moment ago.Katerina, Luka the Minotaur, and Little Ella sat on the stone platform under the marble guard sculpture at the gate of the slave market, and the three pairs of eyes fell on me and Lady Arya in unison, and the three of them had different expressions, and Little Ella asked me loudly without hesitation: "Jiga, did you have an affair with Arya in the magic caravan just now?"
”I shrugged my shoulders, shook my head in denial, pointed to her unwrinkled court dress to prove my whiteness, and said to little Ella, "How could we do such a thing in the magic caravan, do you see whether there is a trace of wrinkles in Arya's dress?"
”Striding up, she stretched out her hands to pick up little Ella on the stone platform, she was dressed in leather armor, carrying her delicate little bow, like a jungle warrior, but she seemed to be a little afraid of itching, and when I lifted her up, she couldn't help but giggle, and shouted to me in a crisp voice: "Well, this time you have found a good reason." ”"Jijia, His Highness Qige asked me to help her keep an eye on you, and if I find out that you dare to steal, I will tell her quietly, but you can find a way to bribe me."
Little Ella slid down my body like a slippery loach fish."
Haha, Jijia, let me down!"
In the morning, I made an appointment with Caterina to go to the rented house and take Ruka and Ella to the slave market.I put my hands on Katerina, smiled at her and asked, "How long have you waited?"
”"It's okay, it won't be long!"
Caterina said.She jumped down from the stone platform, stood in front of me, and gave me a gentle hug.She frowned, reached out and secretly pinched my back, and whispered in my ear: "You haven't done anything, her perfume smells so strong on you." ”"Well, there's not much time left for us, hurry up and get to work!"
I said to Katarina.She smiled softly at me helplessly, as if no matter what I did, no matter how reluctant she was, she would stand aside and silently support.I stood in the middle of the crowd and said, "We're going to buy some slaves here today."
I want to buy the orc slaves that the captured slaves have captured from the outskirts of the imperial capital, not those slaves who have lived in slave camps or broods since childhood, so you have to communicate with them in orc language, and the orcs who have lived in the mountains since childhood will definitely have some orc language, help me screen out those slaves, and then I will buy them. ”Little Ella and Ruka the Minotaur understood why I had let them come here, only they could speak both Orc and Imperial Chinese.Hearing me say this, little Ella's eyes immediately became bright, and she asked me excitedly, "Jiga, you brought us here so that we can help you rescue those fellow orcs?"
”You must know that little Ella has half human blood, but she doesn't have a normal human girl at all, and we orcs who are always open and closed."
There won't be a single orc slave in the entire slave market, and those slave traders don't dare to openly buy and sell orcs, they don't want to have their heads cut off while they fall asleep."
I said to little Ella.Then he explained to her: "The most people in the market are half-orcs after the combination of humans and orcs, this time we have to buy them back, but in the whole market, there are too many such slaves, we must pick some worthy of our salvation, otherwise my money bag may not be enough." ”"Those orcs, half-bloods like me?"
The expression on Little Ella's face instantly became as if she wanted to cry.I really want to give myself a mouthful, why did I forget that little Ella is also a half-blood orc when I say these words?
I squatted down in front of Ella, touched the ground on one knee, held her little face with both hands, and said to her seriously: "Of course my little Ella is not, you are our little orc princess!"
”"Forget it, Jijia, what you say can only coax children."
Little Ella puffed out her cheeks, grimaced at me, and said.Then she grabbed one of my arms and said to me, "However, although those people are not orcs of pure blood, but they have the blood of our tribe's orcs on their bodies, they are still our orc compatriots, so hurry up!"
We go to the slave owners and redeem them. ”So, our group re-entered the slave market.This time, Lady Arya and I were followed by a minotaur as tall as a black tower, and it was hard not to attract attention.In the imperial capital, a minotaur warrior like Ruka is still rare, Ruka only wears an ordinary leather coat and leather pants, dressed very casually and casually, and the kind of leisurely and complacent demeanor between his demeanor and expression is like a minotaur warrior who has comprehended the power of nature, and a kind of coercion faintly revealed by his body will make the pedestrians around him automatically retreat.Caterina wore a sleeveless leather coat and leather armor dress with an open placket over the Serpent's Tooth pattern, this outfit had the style of a tribal warrior, and the dagger tied to her leg flickered as she walked, and I heard Karantso say that she always had a faint smell of blood on her, but I never felt it.I led everyone to the front of the first high platform, and the slave owner standing under the stage greeted us warmly, and Arya and I began to ask about the price of the female orc slaves on the stage, and he smiled and said that it was not too high or too low.At this time, the tall Minotaur Ruka lifted Little Ella to her shoulders with one hand and made her sit on her broad shoulders, so that Little Ella could almost be on par with the half-orc female slave girl on the stage, so Little Ella spoke a series of orc words out of her mouth